Man of steel villain4/2/2024 ![]() ![]() “I think he’s a perfect comic book character because he’s absolutely ludicrous but also very scary in his own way. ![]() “He’s a character I love from the comics,” Gunn explained. Starro became the main villain of The Suicide Squad thanks to Gunn’s terrifying childhood memories of his comic book antics. The villain’s sad tale has become a popular topic of conversation on social media, with fans of the film finding it hard to be too mad at the gigantic starfish who was happily minding his own business in the silence of space before being captured and tortured for years on Earth. Gunn of course chose a kaiju-esque version of Starro the Conqueror to be at the center of The Suicide Squad’s deteriorating mission in the South American island nation of Corto Maltese instead. ![]() “There was a time when I thought The Suicide Squad should fight Superman,” Gunn revealed in a new interview with Script Apart, adding his reasoning for for not picking Superman was that “At the time, there were a lot of questions like, ‘Who is Superman in the DCEU? Is this movie outside the DCEU?’, and I just didn’t want to deal with it all that much. While it’s hard to imagine James Gunn’s recent balls-to-the-wall DC movie The Suicide Squad without its tragic villain Starro now, the director almost pit his team of complex anti-heroes against the Man of Steel, but the uncertain status of the DCEU and question marks over Henry Cavill’s future in it as Superman became sticking points. This article contains spoilers for The Suicide Squad. ![]()
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